Sociology, UC Berkeley Faculty: Publications & Papers of Michael Hout

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Work in Progress

"Rationing Opportunity" A study of trends in American higher education including the admissions crunch, rising tuition, and falling public finance." funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Books

2006 Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (with Fischer). Russell Sage Foundation. Working papers and supplementary materials for the "Century of Difference" Project.
2006 The Truth About Conservative Christians (with Andrew Greeley). University of Chicago Press.
1996 Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (with Fischer, Lucas, Sanchez-Jankowski, Swidler and Voss). Princeton University Press.
1989 Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland. Harvard University Press.
1983 Mobility Tables. Sage Publications.

Inequality and Stratification ^

2012 Hout, Michael, and Avery M. Guest. "Occupational Mobility in US and Britain: 1850-1970." American Economic Review: forthcoming. [note: Although it is an invited comment on an article by Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie, it went through normal peer review at AER]
2011 Hout, Michael. "Social and Economic Returns to Higher Education in the United States." Annual Review of Sociology 37: forthcoming.
2011 Hout, Michael, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth. "Job Loss and Unemployment During the Great Recession." Ch. 2 in The Great Recession, edited by David B. Grusky and Christopher Weiner. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (forthcoming).
2011 Hout, Michael, and ALexander Janus. "Educational Mobility Since the 1930s." Ch. 6 in Whither Opportunity?, edited by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2010 Kesler, Christel, and Michael Michael. "Entrepreneurship and Immigrant Wages in U.S. Labor Markets: A Multi-Levl Approach." Social Science Research 42: 187-201.
2008 Hout, Michael. "How Class Works in Popular Conception: Most Americans Identify with the Class Their Income, Occupation, and Education Implies for Them." Ch. 2 in Social Class: How Does It Work?, edited by Annette Lareau and Dalton Conley. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2007 Hout, Michael. "Maximally Maintained Inequality Revisited: Irish Educational Stratification in Comparative Perspective." Pp. 23-40 in Changing Ireland in International Comparison, edited by Betty Hilliard and Maire NicGhiolla Phadraig. Dublin: Liffey Press.
2006 Hout, Michael, and Thomas A. DiPrete. "RC28's Contribution to Knowledge: An Assessment and an Agenda for the Future." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 1-20.
2006 Beller, Emily, and Michael Hout. "Welfare States and Social Mobility." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 353-365.
2006 Hout, Michael, and Emily Beller. "Intergenerational Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective." The Future of Children 16: 19-36.
2006 Hout, Michael. "Economic Change and Social Mobility." Pp. 112-130 in Inequalities of the World, edited by Goran Therborn. London: Verso.
2006 Hout, Michael. "Maximally Maintained Inequality and Effectively Maintained INequality: Crossnational Comparisons." Riron to Hoho [Sociological Theory and Method] 21: 235-252.
2004 Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. "Tightening Up: Inter- and Intragenerational Mobility in Russia, 1988-2002." American Sociological Review 69 (October): 677-703.
2004 Hout, Michael. "Social Mobility and Inequality: A Review and an Agenda." Ch. 26 in Social Consequences of Growing Inequality edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2004 Hout, Michael. "Educational Progress for African Americans and Latinos Since the 1950s." Pp 262-297 in Ethnicity and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective, edited by Glenn Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven Teles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2003 Hout, Michael. "The Inequality-Mobility Paradox." New Economy 10: 205-207.
2002 Hout, Michael, "Test Scores, Education, and Poverty." Pp. 329-54 in Race and Intelligence, edited by Jefferson Fish. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
2000 Fischer, Claude S., Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss). "Inequality by Design." Chapter 2 in Social Stratification (second edition), edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [reprinted again in Grusky & Szelenyi (2006), The Inequality Reader, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.]
2000 Hout, Michael, and Harvey S. Rosen. "Self-employment, Race, and Family Background." Journal of Human Resources 35: 670-693.
2000 Hout, Michael, "Social Mobility." 840-841 in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2nd edition), edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1998 Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. "More Shock Than Therapy: Employment and Incomes in Russia, 1991-1996." American Journal of Sociology 104 (July): 1-51.
1997 Hout, Michael. "Inequality at the Margins: The Effects of Welfare, the Minimum Wage, and Tax Credits on Low-Wage Labor Markets." Politics and Society 25 (December): 513-524. Arum, Richard, and Michael Hout. "The Early Returns: School-to-Work Transitions in the United States." Pp. 130-146 in Educational Origins and Class Destinations, edited by Walter Müller and Yossi Shavit. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1996 Hout, Michael, Richard Arum, and Kim Voss. "The Political Economy of Inequality in the ‘Age of Extremes’." Demography 33 (November): 421-425.
1996 Hout, Michael, and Samuel R. Lucas. "Narrowing the Income Gap Between Rich and Poor." Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 August, p. B1. [reprinted in Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, edited by Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998].
1995 Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. "Educational Stratification in Russia During the Soviet Period." American Journal of Sociology 101 (November): 611-660.
1995 Hout, Michael, and Daniel P. Dohan. "Two Paths to Equality of Educational Opportunity: Sweden and the United States Compared." Pp. 121-146 in Equality of Educational Opportunity in Sweden: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Robert Erikson and Janne Jonsson. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1995 Hout, Michael. "Politics of Mobility." Pp. 301-325 in Generating Social Stratification, edited by Alan C. Kerckhoff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1993 Raftery, Adrian E., and Michael Hout. "Maximally Maintained Inequality: Educational Stratification in Ireland." Sociology of Education 65 (January): 41-62.
Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. "Persistence of Classes in Postindustrial Societies." International Sociology 8 (September): 259-278. [Reprinted in four collections including The Breakdown of Class Politics, edited by Terry Clark and Seymour Martin Lipset. Washington: Wilson Center.]
1993 Hout, Michael, Adrian E. Raftery, and Eleanor O. Bell. "Making the Grade: Educational Michael Hout Publications 2 Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989." Pp. 25-50 in Persisting Inequality: Educational Stratification in Thirteen Countries, edited by Yossi Shavit and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1993 Hout, Michael, and Robert M. Hauser. "Hierarchy and Symmetry in Occupational Mobility." European Sociological Review 8 (December): 239-266.
Hout, Michael. "Social Mobility." Pp. 840-841 in Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1988 Hout, Michael. "More Universalism and Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s." American Journal of Sociology 93 (May): 1358-1400.
1986 Hout, Michael and John A. Jackson. "Dimensions of Occupational Mobility in the Republic of Ireland." European Sociological Review 2 (September): 114-137.
1986 Hout, Michael. "Opportunity and the Minority Middle Class: A Comparison of Blacks in the U.S. with Catholics in Northern Ireland." American Sociological Review 51 (April): 212-223.
1985 Sobel, Michael E., Michael Hout, and Otis Dudley Duncan. "Exchange, Structure, and Symmetry in Occupational Mobility." American Journal of Sociology 91 (September): 359-372.
1984 Hout, Michael. "Occupational Mobility of Black Men: 1962-1973." American Sociological Review 49 (June): 308-322.
1982 Hout, Michael. "The Association Between Husbands’ and Wives’ Occupations in Two-Earner Families." American Journal of Sociology 87 (September): 397-409.
1981 Garnier, Maurice A. and Michael Hout. "Schooling Processes and Educational Outcomes in France." Quality and Quantity 15 (Summer): 151-177.
1979 Hout, Michael, and Maurice A. Garnier. "Educational Stratification and Curriculum Placement in France." Sociology of Education 52 (July): 146-156.
1976 Garnier, Maurice A., and Michael Hout. "Inequality of Educational Opportunity in France and the United States."
Social Science Research 5 (September): 225-246.
1975 Hout, Michael, and William R. Morgan. "Race and Sex Variations in the Causes of Expected Attainments." American Journal of Sociology 81 (September): 364-394.

Political Sociology ^

2007 Hout, Michael, and Benjamin Moodie. "The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2004." Pp. 567-575 in The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender, edited by David Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi. Boulder CO: Westview Press.
1999 Hout, Michael. "Abortion Politics in the United States, 1972-1996." Gender Issues 17: 3-34.
1996 Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. "Elezioni presidentiali e riallineamento di classe negli Stati Uniti, 1948-1992." Polis 10 (April): 5-24.
1995 Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. "The Democratic Class Struggle in U.S. Presidential Elections: 1948-1992." American Sociological Review 60 (December): 805-828.
1995 Manza, Jeff, Clem Brooks, and Michael Hout. "Class Voting in Western Democracies." Annual Review of Sociology 21:137-163.
1988 Sniderman, Paul M., Philip E. Tetlock, Donald Green, James Glaser, and Michael Hout. "Tolerance and American Democratic Values." British Journal of Political Science 19 (September): 25-45.
1975 Hout, Michael, and David Knoke. "Changes in Voting Turnout: 1952-1972." Public Opinion Quarterly 39 (Spring): 52-62.
1974 Knoke, David, and Michael Hout. "Social and Demographic Factors in American Political Party Preferences." American Sociological Review 39 (October): 700-713.

Religion ^

2011 Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "Religion and Happiness." Ch. 4 in Social Trends since the 1970s, edited by Peter V. Marsden. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2004 Hout, Michael, and Melissa J. Wilde. "The Denominational Society in the United States: A Reappraisal." Pp. 19-49 in Patterns and Processes of Religious Change in Modern Industrial Societies: Europe and the United States, edited by Alasdair Crockett and Richard O’Leary. London: Edwin Mellen.
2003 Hout, Michael. "Demographic Methods for the Study of Religion." Pp. 145-154 in Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, edited by Michele Dillon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2002 Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer, "Explaining the Rise of Americans with No Religious Preference: Generations and Politics." American Sociological Review 67: 165-190.
2001 Hout, Michael, Andrew M. Greeley, and Melissa J. Wilde, "The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change." American Journal of Sociology 107: 468-500.
2000 Hout, Michael, "Alienation Among Divorced and Remarried Catholics in the United States." America: .
1999 Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout. "Americans’ Increasing Belief in Life After Death: Competition and Assimilation." American Sociological Review 65 (December): 813-836.
1999 Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout, "Measuring the Strength of the Christian Right." Christian Century 116 (September): 810-813.
1998 Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "What Church Officials’ Reports Don’t Show: Another Look at Church Attendance Data." American Sociological Review (February): 113-119.
1993 Hout, Michael. "Counting the Returnees." Catholic World 112 (January): 29-38.
1989 Greeley, Andrew M., and Michael Hout, "The Secularization Myth." The Tablet (10 June): 665-668.
1988 Greeley, Andrew M., and Michael Hout. "Musical Chairs: Patterns of Denominational Change in the United States, 1947-1986." Sociology and Social Research 72 (January): 75-86.
1987 Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "The Center Doesn't Hold: Church Attendance in the United States, 1940-1984." American Sociological Review 52: 325-345.

Methodology ^

2004 Evans, William R., Susan Mayer, and Michael Hout. "Inequality Effects" Ch. 27 in Social Consequences of Growing Inequality, edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2001 Goodman, Leo A., and Michael Hout. "Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Michael Hout Publications 4 Comparing How Two-Way Associations Vary Among Countries, Among Groups, or Over Time, Part II: Some Simple Extensions and Simple Examples." Sociological Methodology 31: 189-211.
1998 Goodman, Leo A., and Michael Hout. "Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Comparing How Two-Way Associations Vary Among Countries, Among Groups, or Over Time." Sociological Methodology 28: 175-239 (with discussion by Yu Xie, pp. 231-236, Kazuo Yamaguchi, pp. 237-248, and Goodman-Hout, pp. 249-262).
1997 Yamashita, Robert C., Thomas Piazza, Howard Besser, Troy Duster, and Michael Hout. "The Quality of the Quantity: Information Technology and the Evaluation of Data." Bulletin of Sociological Methodology 54 (March): 317-325.
1987 Hout, Michael, Otis Dudley Duncan, and Michael E. Sobel. "Association and Heterogeneity: Structural Models of Similarities and Differences." Sociological Methodology 17: 145-184.
1982 Hout, Michael. "Using Uniform Association Models: An Example from Delinquency Research." Pp. 115-128 in Quantitative Criminology: Innovations and Applications, edited by John Hagan. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.
1977 Hamblin, Robert L., Michael Hout, Jerry L. L. Miller, and Brian L. Pitcher. "Arms Races: A Test of Two Models." American Sociological Review 42 (April): 338-354.
1977 Hout, Michael. "A Cautionary Note on the Use of TwoStage Least Squares." Sociological Methods and Research 5 (February): 335-346.

Demography ^

2005 Fischer, Claude S., and Michael Hout. "The Family in Trouble? Since When? For Whom?" Pp. 120-140 in The Family Transformed, edited by Steven M. Tipton, and John Witte, Jr. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.
2004 Fischer, Claude S., Gretchen Stockmayer, Jon Stiles, and Michael Hout. "Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000." Demography 41: 37-59.
1994 Hout, Michael, and Joshua R. Goldstein. "How 4.5 Million Irish Immigrants Came to Be 41 Million Irish Americans: Demographic, Social, and Subjective Components of the Ethnic Composition of the White Population of the United States." American Sociological Review 59 (February): 64-82.
1985 Sullivan, Teresa A., Francis P. Gillespie, Michael Hout, and Richard G. Rogers. "Alternative Estimates of Mexican American Mortality in Texas, 1980." Social Science Quarterly 65 (June): 609-617.
1983 Gillespie, Francis P., Andrew M. Greeley, Michael Hout, and Teresa A. Sullivan. "Public Policy, Ethnic Codes, and Hispanic Vital Statistics." La Red/The Net 70 (July): 913ff.
1983 Gillespie, Francis P., Teresa A. Sullivan, Michael Hout, and Andrew M. Greeley. "Surname Versus SelfIdentification in the Analysis of Hispanic Data." Proceedings of the American Statistical Association 80 (August): 117-122.
1980 Hout, Michael. "Trade Dependence and Fertility in Hispanic America: 1900-1975." Pp. 159-188 in Studies of the Modern World System, edited by Albert Bergesen. New York: Academic Press.
1979 Hout, Michael. “Age Structure, Unwanted Fertility, and the Association Between Racial Composition and Family Planning Program Services.” Social Forces 57 (June): 1387-1393.
1978 Hout, Michael. "Determinants of Marital Fertility in the United States, 1968- 1970: Inferences from a Dynamic Model." Demography 15 (May): 139-161.

Other Publications ^

2010 Hout, Michael. "Intergenerational Mobility and the Convergence Thesis: Reflections 25 Years Later." British Journal of Sociology 50: 221-224.
2009 Hout, Michael. "Rationing College Opportunity." American Prospect November issue supplement pp. A8-A10.
2007 Hout, Michael. "Otis Dudley Duncan’s Major Contributions to the Study of Social Stratification." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26: 109-118.
2005 Brady, Henry, Michael Hout, and Jon Stiles. Return on Investment: Educational Choices and Demographic Change in California’s Future. Berkeley: Survey Research Center.
2004 Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals." Op-ed article in N.Y. Times, 4 September 2004
2004 Hout, Michael, "Bush’s Jobs Deficit." Op-ed article in L.A. Times, 1 March 2004.
2004 Hout, Michael. "Houses Divided: Review of The Hidden Cost of Being African American by Thomas M. Shapiro." Washington Post Book World, 15 February, p. 3.
2004 Hout, Michael. Review of "The Pecking Order" by Dalton Conley. Contexts 3 (Spring): 37.
2003 Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer. "Oh, Be Some Other Name: Reply to Marwell and Demerath." American Sociological Review 69: 316-318.
2000 Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "Getting to the Truths That Matter: Reply to Stolzenberg." American Sociological Review 66: 152-158.
1999 Hout, Michael. Review of The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips. Contemporary Sociology 28:538-541.
1998 Review of Modernization and Postmodernization by Ronald Inglehart. Contemporary Sociology 27: 190-192.
1991 Sniderman, Paul M., Philip E. Tetlock, Donald Green, James Glaser, and Michael Hout. "Democratic Values and Mass Publics." Pp. 120-140 in Reasoning and Choice, edited by Paul M. Sniderman and David Brady. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1989 Review of Causal Inference from Quasi-Experimental Data, by Christopher Achen. American Journal of Sociology: 468-470.
1988 Review of Beyond the Color Line, by Reynolds Farley and Walter Allen. American Journal of Sociology: 695-697.
1987 Review of Gender and Work, by Patricia A. Roos. Contemporary Sociology
1986 Sobel, Michael E., Michael Hout, and Otis Dudley Duncan. "Saving the Bath Water." Sociological Methods and Research 14 (Feb.): 271285.
1985 Hout, Michael. "Reply to DeGraaf." American Journal of Sociology 90 (March): 1083-88.
1982 Review of Linear Panel Analysis, by Ronald Kessler and David Greenberg. Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter): 601-602.
1981 Review of Economics and the Family, edited by Stephen J. Bahr. Contemporary Sociology 10 (July): 539-540.
1976 Knoke, David, and Michael Hout. "Reply to Glenn." American Sociological Review 41 (October): 905-908.